Doug Johnson, a co-founder of Pursuit Live, a local talent agency that's played a key role in booking Summerfest shows since 2001, has stepped into the newly-created role, a full-time position created to turn around the Milwaukee arena's declining concert business. The Bradley, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2013, hosted only three major music tours last year. (A fourth planned concert, with P!nk, was postponed to 2014 due to the singer's vocal issues.) | April 7, 2014»Read Full Article

When Tony Mantuano's Mangia in Kenosha reopens on April 25 after several weeks of remodeling, chef Jason Gorman will be leading the kitchen.

It will mark Gorman's return to Wisconsin, where he made his name at what was then Dream Dance at Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee. He next was at the Iron Horse Hotel and La Merenda before leaving in 2012 to work for Mantuano as executive chef at the Art Institute of Chicago. | April 7, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

The Milwaukee Art Museum released a new design for a previously proposed addition that would give the museum an entrance on a prime, if sorely neglected, spot of lakefront.

The new building, designed by Milwaukee architect Jim Shields, of HGA Architects and Engineers, will be 17,000 square feet and is part of a larger $15 million project to renovate and reorganize the museum's permanent collection galleries,said Vicki Scharfberg, the museum's communications director. | April 7, 2014»Read Full Article(53)

Whoever your imaginary friends were as a kid, I sincerely hope they didn't resemble the creepy antihero in Noah Haidle's "Mr. Marmalade," now being staged by Splinter Group under Jim Farrell's direction.

Mr. Marmalade (Zach Thomas Woods) is the fictive creation of Lucy, a precocious 4-year-old. He wears a suit and carries a briefcase — an emblem of a job forcing him to work 20 hours each day. | April 7, 2014»Read Full Article

It is being described as the largest outdoor art show ever conceived. Five major American art museums will collaborate to bring about 50 masterworks of American art to as many as 50,000 displays along streets and highways nationwide, including billboards, subway platforms, trains, buses and bus shelters.

Art Everywhere U.S. is inspired by a similar project in the U.K. last year and is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, artists, estates, foundations and rights agencies. | April 7, 2014»Read Full Article(1)

It was another big week for Pharrell Williams - and his sixth week on top of the Billboard Hot 100 was only one reason. See why Williams is celebrating extra hard this week and then check out which songs were the biggest hits in the United States this week back in 2009, 1999, 1989 and 1979.

Jackson Browne and John Prine — two of music's most revered singer-songwriters — are playing two separate shows in Milwaukee in the coming months, the Pabst Theater Group announced Monday morning.

After playing the Riverside Theater in 2012, Browne will be back at the venue July 15. Reserved seats are $49.50 to $65, available at the box office (116 W. Wisconsin Ave.), the Pabst Theater box office (144 E. Wells St.), by calling (414) 286-3663 and pabsttheater.org. | April 7, 2014»Read Full Article